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    2 days ago

    Do you think celebrities with all the perks they have really get to be applauded for standing up for themselves when a teacher doesn’t have that kind of privilege?

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      The solution is not to drag everyone down. Teachers deserve to get paid more but their pay comes mostly from local property taxes instead of a trillion dollar company that owns a third of all media.

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      This is a relative privation argument. Just because other people are less privileged than Claudia Black doesn’t mean she should be a Disney doormat.